Spellbreaker - Strength Fighter

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and Open World Solo

Expansions required:

This build was last updated on April 30, 2023 and is up to date for the February 14, 2023 game patch.

Overview

Power Spellbreaker is a very strong open world solo build with a low skill floor and a very high skill ceiling thanks to the nature of . It can be built many different ways, from DPS to sustain tank, and can even bring support for allies in group events.

Meta Rating

Power Spellbreaker is a fantastic solo build and is rated meta for this purpose. For zerg farming, other builds will outperform it, though it still holds its own in a lot of popular farms.

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Skill Bar

Dagger/Axe

Hammer

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Mace (Mainhand) - Extra defense and CC
• Shield - Extra defense and CC

Skill Variants

Heal Skills

• - Condition clear at the cost of adrenaline
• - extremely strong counter-pressure heal

Utilities

• - more dodges.
• - alternative to
• - stability and damage reduction
• - best condition clear and stunbreak
• - high DPS option
• - immortality for a few seconds
• - boost ally damage; great for zergs
• - boost ally damage; great for zergs
• - boost ally defense; good for zergs
• - boost ally defense; good in zergs
  • If taking banners, consider taking

Elite Skills

• - ally rez + boon support
• - projectile hate

Specializations

• - combined with and , provides permanent Quickness
• - use if taking daggers
• - nearly permanent Stability uptime
• - grants significant protection uptime
• - if not running a dagger
• - if not running an axe
• - provides extremely high sustain when combined with
• - high DPS without relying on CC, better if using Greatsword or Axe/Axe.

Tactics Variant

For a massive boost to sustain, replace Defense with Tactics.

Discipline Variant

If running banners for a zerg, consider swapping to and using this variant instead.

Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
This set uses gear similar to that of Build:Berserker_-_Power_DPS, making it a good option for general PVE.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Axe
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Knight - defensive trinkets

Sigils

• , - budget dps
• - strong defense sigil
• - use with mace for an increase to sustain

Runes

• , - budget dps
• , - Defense

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• , - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• , - dps

Usage

Damage

• Use off cooldown: , , (or any current Burst skill at 2 bars)
• This build focuses on using Disables to proc . Space out Disables to maintain high Quickness uptime.
  • Disables to focus on are: , , , .
• You also should focus on maintaining Weakness when possible. Weakness not only provides you a damage bonus through but also provides you with great personal defenses against non-defiant foes. Your primary sources of Weakness are and your Burst Skills.
  • Note, however, that Skelk Venom ( https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skale_Venom_%28consumable%29 ) is a consumable which will greatly assist in Weakness application at practically no cost.

Defense

• is a really powerful defensive skill, try to use it instead of dodging whenever possible.
  • Note that reduces the damage of attacks to 0 rather than actually blocking them. This is relevant if trying not to get hit by an attack (e.g. for specific achievements).
• Mace/Shield has several blocks and CC
• Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible (except when baiting ).

Sustain

• If using , granting might to yourself will provide healing and endurance regeneration.
• If using Tactics, Shouts provide extra healing.
• If using Daggers, provides very high health per second.

Crowd Control

• /
• Seriously just hit any button on this build and you're probably going to CC something.

Video Examples

• Avatar of Balthazar Solo with an old version of this build